Weird text fault (Mac Wesnoth 0.8.10)

Na'enthos · Post by **Na'enthos** » February 16th, 2005, 11:21 pm

Well, let me show you.

I'll also note that I didn't see this all the time and I am not sure when it appeared.. it occurred while playing 'An orcish incursion' as you may be able to see. Not sure whether that's important, though, as I haven't played any other campaign nor non-campaign games with the current version of Wesnoth.

Na'enthos · Post by **Na'enthos** » February 16th, 2005, 11:23 pm

Second example:

Oh, and the normal text may be a bit misformed but that's because of the conversion from .pdf to .jpeg.

silene · Post by **silene** » February 16th, 2005, 11:26 pm

Known bug (any platform, and since a real long time). In my opinion it is an SDL bug rather than a Wesnoth bug. But you can never be sure. So I would be glad if anybody could find a way to reproduce this bug at will.

Na'enthos · Post by **Na'enthos** » February 17th, 2005, 7:27 am

silene wrote:Known bug (any platform, and since a real long time). In my opinion it is an SDL bug rather than a Wesnoth bug. But you can never be sure. So I would be glad if anybody could find a way to reproduce this bug at will.

Never saw it before.. which seems odd, considering.

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » February 17th, 2005, 8:41 pm

Seen it on several occasions, particularly in the 'Son of the Black Eye(Part 1)', and 'The Rise of Wesnoth'.

Post by **Darth Fool** » February 17th, 2005, 9:40 pm

Star Gazer wrote:Seen it on several occasions, particularly in the 'Son of the Black Eye(Part 1)', and 'The Rise of Wesnoth'.

Hmm... perhaps it is a unicode thing? IIRC, SoBE uses some accented names...

Gafgarion · Post by **Gafgarion** » February 18th, 2005, 7:20 pm

Na'enthos wrote:
silene wrote:Known bug (any platform, and since a real long time). In my opinion it is an SDL bug rather than a Wesnoth bug. But you can never be sure. So I would be glad if anybody could find a way to reproduce this bug at will.
Never saw it before.. which seems odd, considering.

Same here. I've never seen it before 0.8.10, but now it appears all the time. What changed that makes it crop up more frequently?

dtw · Post by **dtw** » February 19th, 2005, 6:06 am

same here - i never saw it until 8.10 - i can check when my last SDL update was too for you?

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » February 19th, 2005, 7:44 pm

No, it definitely has been around awhile, certainly in SoBE, and it does relate to the accented names in some strange way.

Only more recently seen it in TRoW.

silene · Post by **silene** » February 19th, 2005, 8:00 pm

The first time I heard about it, it was in a screenshot done by isaac (a long time ago...). The garbled string was the "enemy sighted" text; and since isaac always plays in english, it is not a matter of accented letters.

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » February 19th, 2005, 11:19 pm

Sorry, correction, I think it was a curious troll name with an apostrophe in it.

defsy · Post by **defsy** » February 22nd, 2005, 12:31 am

silene wrote:So I would be glad if anybody could find a way to reproduce this bug at will.

There you go

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func= ... m_id=12083

HTH
defsy

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 23rd, 2005, 8:13 pm

I just updated to 8.11 and have now started encountering this bug, having never seen it before. I leap-frogged over 8.10, so my update was from 8.9 to 8.11. I encountered it in HttT in Home of the North Elves and the Valley of Statues. This may be an old bug, but it seems that for me and many others it only started occuring after 8.9.